Week 45: A Guide for Leading the Church with Integrity

In our society today leadership development is a very hot topic that is discussed in almost every domain and one of the foundational aspects for sustained growth of any sphere it impacts. Business leaders cultivate it to make sure their organizations have a good depth of leadership talent to make sure there the business can...

Week 44: Standing firm through suffering because of hope in Jesus’ return

Even though we do not read much about Paul's ministry in Thessalonica, there is enough information given us in Acts 17 to help set the context for Paul's relationship with the Thessalonians. Here is a quick recap: Paul spent three sabbaths in the Jewish synagogue reasoning with them from the scriptures. This lets us know...

Week 42: Freedom and Victory in Christ

During the few years I lived in the East coast, there were some things I just never could understand. For instance the difference between townships and municipalities and boroughs and cities and towns...and so on. Our house where we lived was part one city while belonging to another township. And some parts of the city...

Week 41: Forgiveness and Reconciliation through the Cross

In today's era of instant messaging and communication, most of us probably do not have much appreciation for the type of written communication that we see expressed in the letters of Paul to the early church. Without dating myself too much, I recall a time period in my life where it tool almost an entire...

Week 40: Learning to live in the reality of Salvation

Corinth was a place where the apostle Paul spent one and half years, which is a considerable amount of time during his missionary journeys (Acts 18:11). This is where he met Aquilla and Priscilla who were tentmakers by profession along with him. Silas and Timothy were also there with him. And while at Corinth, we...

Week 39: Power of the Gospel to bring Salvation to All

Imagine that you grew up your whole life only reading about the Elephant and imagining in your mind that it was creature about a foot tall and 2 feet long, green in color, had 4 short legs, 2 long ears and with a nose or a snout like a pig. But you never had a...